Have you ever read a book that CHANGED your life(style)?

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  • littlelaura
    littlelaura Posts: 1,028 Member
    "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" By Mitch Albom, amazing book, non religious, just life affirming uplifting goodness.
    he also wrote, tuesdays with morey, for one more day and have a little faith (this last one I have but have not read yet).

    I have read The Eye of the I , from which nothing is hidden by David R. Hawkins this is an extremely deep read and will take weeks to get into digesting it if you can at all. This is more of a philosophy and metaphysics book. I havent been the same since, it changed me forever. I think differently about my own mortality and my own place in the universe and that actions count and our choices in life should be made with more care.

    Currently reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
    and
    A Course In Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever by Marianne Williamson
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut
    Illusions - Richard Bach
    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
  • jmehere
    jmehere Posts: 108 Member
    The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown.
  • PlanetVelma
    PlanetVelma Posts: 1,223 Member
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy (they made an excellent movie from the even more excellent book)

    The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

    LOVE "The Things They Carried" - in fact my son had to create a "Reading list" for his AP English class and I suggested he add that book to his “list”. He really enjoyed it. It's a great read, sad but a great read.

    A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity (Bill O'Reilly) – was really great as well. It’s an autobiography – not a book about politics (or pinheads LOL).

    I really enjoy his “writer’s voice”. I got a great visual when he talked about what a little pain in the butt he was as a kid; his experiences during the Vietnam Era; as well as his job as a History teacher.

    Easy read, engaging and personable. Two thumbs up on both counts.

    There was another book, but a old neighbor had loaned it to me about 10 years ago. This book was missing the cover, the pages were all dog-eared, no title page no NADA.

    It was basically a book about a small mining town in the Carolinas, and it chronicled this family and the final days before the apocalypse. The part that struck me the most was at the end. The heroine gave birth to a baby and at that moment the family had to run & escape these horrible thorned vines that were coming up from the ground.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,990 Member
    Does Fatal Attraction count?


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  • unmitigatedbadassery
    unmitigatedbadassery Posts: 653 Member
    This may seem out of place...

    The Giver by Lowis Lowery

    I read this in 6th grade (many, many moons ago) and it became one of my favorite books even today.

    Quick synopsis:
    In a utopia everything has become the same. There are no colors, no smells, no tastes. A boy is chosen to be the giver and is taught to 'see' the emotions and senses that the rest of the world is blind to.

    This book really had an impact on me to appreciate life every day. Even the painful ones.
  • Beastette
    Beastette Posts: 1,497 Member
    Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

    YES!

    The Informant
    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
    A Wrinkle in Time
    All of George R. R. Martin's SOIAF books
    Lincoln on Leadership
    The Bell Curve
    The Last Unicorn
    Seventh Son
  • StrongerJess
    StrongerJess Posts: 185 Member
    These are great book suggestions!! I have already started on 2 of them, and have a whole wish list ready now. Keep them coming!! Thanks everyone! :smile:
  • live2dream
    live2dream Posts: 614 Member
    Skinny B!tch
    The Kind Diet
    A New Earth by Eckart Tolle
  • foster59803
    foster59803 Posts: 439 Member
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy (they made an excellent movie from the even more excellent book)

    The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien


    I loved the Road... glad someone mentioned it. It will make you want to lean how to can food and bury it in your back yard. Or at least that is what it made me want to do. :tongue:
  • saimabhaidani
    saimabhaidani Posts: 145 Member
    thankyou all for sharing
  • tinyjourney
    tinyjourney Posts: 198 Member
    I am Hoping that the New Rules of Lifting for Women is about to change my life. Or at least my body



    *two week countdown*

    This was a great read, even if you only take parts of it. I love the fact that each person involved in the book has credentials to back what they are saying.
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